Who's drivers are better???

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OK......time to get rid of the SB sound card:rolleyes: and get something better:D. Latency and dropouts are driving me up a wall:mad:. For my purposes, I have it narrowed down to the M-Audio 2496 or the E-Mu 0404. Both in PCI card format. Just wondering what everyone here has to say about these two. Which one has the better driver, converters, etc. Or is it virtually the same between the two. I'm running a PC w/ XP and Reaper.
 
The sound quality is going to be about the same.

I'm not experienced with the E-Mu card but M-Audio makes excellent drivers, that's always been my experience. They did take a long time to get Vista drivers but it's a non-issue now.
 
Driver wise, M-Audio and RME are definately two of the better ones that I have found:)
 
My 24/96 has really good drivers. I have a kind of slow computer, but since upgrading from the SoundBlaster, I can't hear any latency at all, and there are no dropouts.

The thing I don't like about it though, is the RCA jacks on the back. It'd be much easier if it used 1/4". The adapters are real cheap at Radio Shack though.

I haven't used the 0404 but I have the EMU 1212M and it seems about the same. I would personally suggest the 24/96 though.
 
That's pretty funny that M-Audio's Windows drivers are good. On the Mac platform, M-Audio has about the worst drivers of literally any hardware vendor that provides Mac drivers at all, IMHO. Constant breakage with software updates, horribly hacked driver loading mechanism that won't reliably detect the device if you plug it in without rebooting, etc. Just complete junk driver-wise.

Unfortunately, my opinion of their hardware isn't much better than their Mac drivers, sadly. Significant FireWire bugs, somewhat spitty pres, flaky S/PDIF, etc. Plus, the analog section of their hardware just didn't really sound very good, at least with the Delta series hardware I've used (1010LT). YMMV with the newer stuff like the 24/96.

I'd expect the E-MU hardware to sound better, but that's mainly just because they've been designing audio hardware for about 27 years longer than M-Audio (Midiman) has. :D
 
solo2racr said:
English translation please. I text message like a 45 year old male (IE: not at all:rolleyes:) not like a 12 year old girl:D
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Your mileage may vary. Wow. I thought everyone knew that one. It's been around since I was a teenager....
 
dgatwood said:
Your mileage may vary. Wow. I thought everyone knew that one. It's been around since I was a teenager....
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What can I say? I am cellularly challenged:o I was only talked into getting a cell phone 2 years ago. :eek:

When I was a teenager.......digital was using your fingers
 
therage! said:
The sound quality is going to be about the same.

I'm not experienced with the E-Mu card but M-Audio makes excellent drivers, that's always been my experience. They did take a long time to get Vista drivers but it's a non-issue now.
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wow, I've had NOTHING but troubles since i had to (key word here is HAD to) switch to vista.. The drivers for my delta 1010 are sketchy, and are missing alot of features I liked in the xp version. I'm actually scrapping my 1010 solely on the shittyness of the vista drivers.
 
eeb said:
wow, I've had NOTHING but troubles since i had to (key word here is HAD to) switch to vista.. The drivers for my delta 1010 are sketchy, and are missing alot of features I liked in the xp version. I'm actually scrapping my 1010 solely on the shittyness of the vista drivers.
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Aha. That's the M-Audio I know and love....

:D
 
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